Light is very pleasant to the eyes. Imagine if you were shut up in darkness all the time! When God said, “Let there be light,” He saw that it was good. In Ecclesiastes 11:7 Solomon said that “light is sweet,” referring to physical light. However, the gospel light is more precious, for it reveals eternal things and feeds our immortal natures. For the Christian, the Holy Spirit gives spiritual light and enables them to see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and God’s plan for the world to come.
Light and darkness have nothing in common, and so God divided them. As sons of light, we must not have fellowship with the works, doctrines or deceitfulness of darkness. As children of the day, we should be sober, honest and ready for the Lord’s work. The works of darkness are for those who shall dwell in it forever. Remember that God is light and there was light (day 1) before the sun (day 4). “God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts” (2 Corinthians 4:6). If God has put that light in your heart, He will keep it burning until this world’s night is past and we are in His eternal day.
1. We were once darkness, but we are now light in the Lord. How are we to walk? Ephesians 5:___
2. What four things are said of those who are called out of darkness into His marvelous light? 1 Peter 2:___
3. A repentant person will deliver his soul from going into the pit. What about his life? Job 33:___
4. What will give light and understanding to the simple? Psalm 119:___ (hint: after verse 100)
5. Why did the city have no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it? Revelation 21:___